Corporate India has a paucity of great leaders because Indian organizations don’t groom leaders and, for their part, managers don’t have the drive to lead, says management guru Pritam Singh.

Mr. Singh should know – he has trained more than a 100,000 managers since 1974 and worked with nearly 200 chief executive officers as a consultant. He has been on the board of more than 50 private and government-owned companies, and is currently the director general of International Management Institute, a business school in New Delhi.

In 2003, Mr. Singh was awarded the Padma Shri, a high civilian prize given by the Indian government, for his contribution in the field of management education. Read More »

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